"Shah-Mak: Checkmate - or Death to the King. This is the deadly game that the most powerful man in the world plays against his own side.
Why should the Ruler of one of the richest oil-producing countries order his own assassination? With two million pounds in gold at stake, Charles Pol, master of intrigue, espionage and revolution doesn't enquire too closely. But when Nazak, the Ruler's infamously ruthless security police suspect that it is they who are the pawns in their master's murderous game, Pol and his accomplices find themselves ensnared in a vicious web of treachery, torture and violent death." (Aus dem Klappentext)